12/31 What is happening in Japan’s regional cities, where population decline and labor shortages are accelerating? One serious reality is the struggle to recruit. This means that it is becoming difficult to secure human resources, including young people. What can we learn from the voices of local companies? “These days, when you apply for a job at a local high school, the number of holidays is compared very harshly. In our day, students only looked at their starting salary, but today’s young people are very concerned about the number of holidays they have. If you don’t have enough, you’ll be eliminated as the first candidate for employment. In order to secure personnel, we have no choice but to increase the number of holidays.” (The Real Japanese Economy) “We are hiring, but these days, very few young people apply. For the past decade or so, they have been unable to recruit new graduates, so they have stopped recruiting altogether.” (The Real Japanese Economy) This is what is happening in the security industry. “If the security industry does not offer higher wages and employee benefits than before, employees will move to other industries. Even if you advertise for jobs these days, no one will take notice if the pay is low. Conversely, it can also be said that the industry is finally becoming one where security guards can be paid a salary commensurate with the work they do.” (The Real Japanese Economy) Recruitment is also tough for companies operating in the clothing and nursing care industries. “We used to hire new graduates, but now we can’t do that anymore, so we only hire mid-career employees. However, in recent years, it has become more difficult to recruit mid-career employees. In the uniform business, even when we advertise, we don’t get many applicants. Even if you are hired, there are many cases where the job doesn’t last long. One aspect of the job of sales is to create demand by getting people who don’t even need it to buy, but we now live in an age where people who want a product buy only the amount they need, when they want it. There is no denying that there are some aspects that go against the times. “I feel that young people in particular don’t have a very good impression of this way of working.” (The Real Japanese Economy) Young people hardly apply, and mid-career recruitment is also difficult… This reality is particularly evident in small and medium-sized companies in rural areas. It is becoming increasingly difficult to retain young people by simply promoting the good points of a region. If the only jobs they can find are long hours for low wages, workers will simply move to larger cities. It will be impossible to keep young people in the area without fundamentally improving working conditions in companies. In the past, following the collapse of the bubble economy and the resulting period of deflation, companies were able to record the surplus generated by utilizing cheap labor as corporate profits. Looking back at the past, we can see that the current economic situation is clearly different from past situations. 〉(The Real Japanese Economy).
>>1 Well, that’s just the price of not hiring people from the Ice Age generation. It’s what you brought on yourself. That generation was unable to get married and had no children, so the children of that generation are the current new graduate generation. Of course it’s extremely small.
It’s become like this 1990 Corolla 1.22 million yen, Ramen 450 yen, consumption tax 3%, salary 4.55 million yen 2021 Corolla 2.52 million yen, Ramen 800 yen, consumption tax 10%, salary 4.18 million yen Average age of the population 37 years old in America 37 years old in Russia 35 years old in China 42 years old in Korea 28 years old in India 48 years old in Japan★. h h
>>3 30 years ago, I was 27 years old and my annual income wasn’t that low It was about 8 million yen. Of course, now I get more. That number is ridiculous.
>>4 The employment ice age generation, who were in their early 20s 30 years ago, are now in their early 50s and are starting to show signs of wear and tear on their bodies.
>>9 Aren’t most old people able to live on their pensions? Those with no or little pensions have no choice but to work. Even if they have a sufficient pension, they are likely to become senile if they have too much free time, so it seems like many people work to prevent dementia.
If you can’t become a civil servant in the local area, you’re a real slave. You can’t escape from your childhood room for the rest of your life. “I can live comfortably even without that much income,” he laments. Kimura says, “Even if we raise the hourly wage a little, young people in Japan won’t come. They might come if we raised wages by two or three times, but it wouldn’t be profitable,” he said. Fusajiro Nakamura (79), a company adviser, said, “If we are the only ones to raise wages, we will end up taking people away from smaller companies.”
What’s the point of being afraid of a declining birthrate and an aging population? People who can’t get married are just that bad. Life-prolonging treatment for the elderly is a waste of medical resources. The decline of rural areas is simply a matter of natural selection. There’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s not a communist society.
The model of Okinawa and Kumamoto (urban area), which are the only regions with a population increase of just two people, should be applied nationwide.
>>20 Okinawa and Kumamoto are both close to the sea, so it seems like there’s a lot of fun to be had there. Plus, the sun sets late, so even on weekdays you can relax and watch the sunset on the beach after work. At the same time, Tokyo office workers are holding on to the straps of crowded trains, looking at the pitch black scenery outside, wondering if they’ll be able to get a half-price bento at the supermarket.
My company is amazing too. At our Kagoshima branch, a 22-year-old new employee was late eight times in a row and still wasn’t fired. It’s an amazing time.
> I can live comfortably without that much income, just needing to eat, spending it on leisure, saving, investing, and getting married and having children are out of the question.
>>23 The only things that are cheap in the countryside are rent and real estate. If you own a car, that money goes away. There’s no point living in the countryside.
“If people aren’t coming, we just improve the benefits,” and “If they don’t like it, they can just quit.” This cycle improves the environment of the entire labor market.
>>33 Tokyo is a city that doesn’t create anything new. There’s no way innovation will happen with people who don’t put in any effort, enter university-affiliated high schools without taking exams, and try to get into big companies with alumni and parental connections. They have the mentality of begging for tax money.
Urban areas are not the only places where people can live off cash income. In the past in Japan and in today’s rural areas, a self-sufficient lifestyle would have made sense. Because it is surrounded by nature, there are abundant living resources.
Insurance company agents were deceived. It’s directly managed by the insurance company, so it’s safe, there are job offers with a fixed salary of 7 to 10 million yen, 120 days off, no overtime. In reality, it was full commission and 0 yen if you didn’t sign a contract. It was open from morning until late at night, no weekends, and even if you signed a contract, they just took a cut of the commission.
There must have been people who made money over the past 30 years by working the “employment ice age” generation to the bone with low wages and non-regular employment, then dumping them. All of their assets should be confiscated.
The idiot who wrote this article is a researcher at an external agency of Recruit. Tell that to the parent company of that stupid magazine that’s increasing the number of part-time workers.
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